NYC Mayor Eric Adams is wasting no time getting started on the ambitious "Moonshot" plan he announced last week to build 500K new housing units over the next 10 years.

This week, the Department of City Planning announced it will immediately begin public hearings of a 46-block rezoning of portions of two East Bronx neighborhoods in proximity to future Metro-North stations—instantly fulfilling Adams' pledge to speed up NYC's land use review process.

The rezoning of industrial and manufacturing areas to residential—expected to be accompanied by an increase in residential density in other parts of the Bronx—is aimed at neighborhoods surrounding two rail stations, both servicing Metro-North, that are projected to open in 2027: the Parkchester/Van Nest and Morris Park Metro-North stations.

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